Category Archives: Cleveland

Originally posted on dbfamilylaw: Cleveland report The report of the Butler-Sloss inquiry into child abuse in Cleveland (HMSO, Cm 412) was published on 6 July 1988. (A helpful summary of the report from BMJ of 16 July 1988…

Cleveland Council have released useful details of two pages of Minutes[1] dated 14th September 1988, from the Social Services Committee (SSC) of the now abolished County Council of Cleveland. This was in response to a Freedom of Information Request [2], … Continue reading →

Originally posted on spotlight: Most people’s memory of the Cleveland child abuse scandal in 1987 would be of a nationionwide media storm involving ‘falsely accused’ parents whose children had been taken away by over-zealous social workers who had misdiagnosed child…